Despite the negative impact it can have on our hearts, it is prudent to be aware that a growing anthropocentric mind-set is posing increasing challenges to, as John Muir wrote, our fellow mortals. During the late 1960s and 1970s, the respect for Nature and… Continue Reading “State of the Chaparral – 2025”
Category: Chaparral Biome, Habitat ClearanceTags: AFE, ancestral lands, Association for Fire Ecology, CalFire, CalMatters, cultural burns, cultural fire, Fire Circles, fireecology.org, Indigenous burning, Indigenous fire, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Posted on September 8, 2022
by CA Chaparral Institute
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In Pursuit of Logic: Part V of V “Although most Americans know they are supposed to say ‘We learn from our mistakes,’ deep down they don’t believe it for a minute.”– Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson The key issue we have been struggling with… Continue Reading “Science Provides, Wisdom Will Lead”
Category: Climate Change, Fire, Habitat Clearance, Indigenous fire use, MisconceptionsTags: America the Beautiful, California Indians, crying Indian, Cultural appropriation, Don Hankins, Frank Waters, Indigenous burning, Indigenous fire, Iron Eyes Cody, Masked Gods, Native American fire use, prescribed fire, Sara A Clark, Scott Stephens
In Pursuit of Logic: Part I of V The call by non-Indigenous people to incorporate a romanticized, stereotyped version of Native American fire use is a thinly veiled attempt to appropriate Native culture for the same reason colonial powers have done so in the… Continue Reading “We’re getting ‘Indigenous’ controlled burning all wrong”
Category: Fire, Forests, Habitat Clearance, Indigenous fire use, MisconceptionsTags: chaparral wisdom, controlled burning, cultural burning, Don Hankins, habitat as fuel, Indigenous fire, Sara A Clark, Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley fire research
